Quotes About Conflict

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict ?"

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

A plague o' both your houses.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, who he assumes to have perfect vision.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

Moderation in war is imbecility.

I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'